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Make Your Mortgage Rate Strategy : The Federal Reserve Starts A 2-Day Meeting

Nov 1, 2011

The Federal Open Market Committee begins a scheduled, 2-day meeting today, the seventh of its 8 scheduled meetings this year, and the eighth Fed meeting overall.

Pending Home Sales Index Slips For 4th Straight Month

Oct 28, 2011

Nationwide, fewer homes are going under contract to sell.

New Home Inventory Keeps Sinking

Oct 27, 2011

Home builders continue to sell homes and work through inventory.

Detroit Leads All Case-Shiller Cities In Home Price Improvement

Oct 26, 2011

Since bottoming out in March of this year, the Case-Shiller Index is up nearly 4 percent.

The Government’s Revamped HARP Program For Underwater Homeowners

Oct 25, 2011

The Federal Home Finance Agency announced big changes to its Home Affordable Refinance Program Monday. More commonly called HARP, the Home Affordable Refinance Program is meant to give “underwater homeowners” opportunity to refinance.

Despite 18% Contract Failure Rate, Home Resales Stay Strong

Oct 21, 2011

According to data from the National Association of REALTORS®, on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis, September’s Existing Home Sales eased by 150,000 units, falling to 4.91 million units nationwide.

Mass. State Court Voids Home Sale Due to Improper Foreclosure

Oct 20, 2011

A Massachusetts man lost something he never had – his home. The Masachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled this week that when Francis Bevilacqua purchased the home from U.S. Bank in 2006, the bank did not actually hold the home’s title. The court ruled that because...

Finding Truth In September’s Housing Starts Report

Oct 20, 2011

Wednesday, the Census Bureau released its September Housing Starts report. In it, the government said that national Housing Starts rose 15 percent in September as compared to August 2011, tallying 658,000 units on a seasonally-adjusted annualized basis.